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Max Parrot captures Team Canada’s first gold medal at Winter Olympics
Team Canada has captured its first gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Max Parrot claimed the top spot in the men’s snowboard slopestyle on Monday.
🤩 @MAXPARROT IS GOLDEN 🤩
He wins #TeamCanada’s first gold medal of #Beijing2022 and 🇨🇦’s first-ever gold in snowboard slopestyle 🥇
🎥: @cbcsports
pic.twitter.com/MDzV3J45T3— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) February 7, 2022
Mark McMorris also made it onto the podium, earning a bronze medal.
THREE-TIME OLYMPIC MEDALLIST 🥉🥉🥉@markmcmorris wins his third straight Olympic slopestyle bronze at #Beijing2022 🏂
See his run on @cbcsports ⬇️
pic.twitter.com/m59XBDZQq0— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) February 7, 2022
It’s the second time in two Games that Quebec’s Parrot and Regina’s McMorris have appeared together on the slopestyle podium.
Four years ago in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Parrot finished with the silver while McMorris took bronze.
Both men are being hailed as lessons in resilience. McMorris suffered a near-fatal injury in 2017 after colliding with a tree while snowboarding in the Whistler backcountry. Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2018. He beat the disease and returned to snowboarding just one year later.
🚨 DOUBLE PODIUM FOR #TEAMCANADA 🚨
Max Parrot wins his first Olympic gold, while Mark McMorris wins bronze in snowboard slopestyle 🥇🥉
Details ➡️ https://t.co/H9m2FKRW1b pic.twitter.com/9B5tH1jcbX
— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) February 7, 2022
